Australian BirdsWhite-rumped Sandpiper
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White-rumped Sandpipers are very rarely recorded in Australia.
They can easily be overlooked in a mixed feeding flock of waders, especially Red-necked Stints because they are much the same shape, perhaps a little darker but only about 10% larger - they feed in much the same fashion by rapid probing of the bill, often in water only a few cm deep. In flight the white rump contrasts well with a black tail band.
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![]() 849201-D ... White-rumped Sandpiper in winter plumage, Lake Wollumboola NSW, 15 Jan 2015. |
![]() 849202-D ... White-rumped Sandpiper |
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![]() 849203-D ... White-rumped Sandpiper |
![]() 849205-D ... White-rumped Sandpiper |
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